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Fictitious Business Name (DBA) needed for an e-commerce site?

I`m a new member, so please forgive me if I`m posting in the wrong
forum. I`ve done a lot of searching on the SUN site and the rest of the
Internet, but cannot find an answer to my question:
We are currently waiting for our LLC articles of organization to be
approved by the California Secretary of State. (YAY!!) For sake of this
post, we`ll give it the fictional name, Strategic Climate, LLC.
Once our LLC for Strategic Climate is granted, we will create a
general, information-only website with the domain name
strategicclimate.com.
We would then like to create a couple of different e-commerce websites
to operate under our LLC. These e-commerce websites would have their
own unique domain names, unrelated to the StrategicClimate.com name.
Again, for the sake of this post, we`ll give these fictional e-commerce
sites the following names:
ShadeMe.com
SunResistor.com
We will be accepting credit cards through the ShadeMe.com and
SunResistor.com websites, and plan to advise customers that they will
be billed by Strategic Climate, LLC, and that they should expect to see
Strategic Climate, LLC on their credit card statement. Is this enough?
Do we only have to make mention of Strategic Climate, LLC within each
of the e-commerce websites? Or do we need to register a Fictitious
Business Name (DBA) for ShadeMe.com and SunResistor.com?
Is anyone in the SUN community operating a similar set-up?
forum. I`ve done a lot of searching on the SUN site and the rest of the
Internet, but cannot find an answer to my question:
We are currently waiting for our LLC articles of organization to be
approved by the California Secretary of State. (YAY!!) For sake of this
post, we`ll give it the fictional name, Strategic Climate, LLC.
Once our LLC for Strategic Climate is granted, we will create a
general, information-only website with the domain name
strategicclimate.com.
We would then like to create a couple of different e-commerce websites
to operate under our LLC. These e-commerce websites would have their
own unique domain names, unrelated to the StrategicClimate.com name.
Again, for the sake of this post, we`ll give these fictional e-commerce
sites the following names:
ShadeMe.com
SunResistor.com
We will be accepting credit cards through the ShadeMe.com and
SunResistor.com websites, and plan to advise customers that they will
be billed by Strategic Climate, LLC, and that they should expect to see
Strategic Climate, LLC on their credit card statement. Is this enough?
Do we only have to make mention of Strategic Climate, LLC within each
of the e-commerce websites? Or do we need to register a Fictitious
Business Name (DBA) for ShadeMe.com and SunResistor.com?
Is anyone in the SUN community operating a similar set-up?
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Comments
We were going to go by a different name for our business and file a DBA for it owned and operated by our LLC. We`ve decided to go with our LLC name instead so we never filed it. I think regardless of the state, if you are operating a business under a different name (even your own) you need to file at least a DBA.
Nuevolution2006-10-5 12:10:44
When you form a corporation you are creating a separate entity, which has a "life" of its` own.
There are legal, liability, financial, and tax reasons for the various business forms. You should consult an attorney and or tax accountant to determine what business form is best for your situation (current and future).
~Rolandvwebworld2007-5-12 22:50:54
micsimonian1/18/2008 6:48 PM